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Welcome to the Snub Disphenoid

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Welcome! Welcome to my blog : The Snub Disphenoid. This is my first post to this blog as well as the first nugget of content that I've published online! I am currently in college in the UK studying Maths, Physics and Computer Science, and aptly I will be studying Maths with Computation next year in university. Snub Disphenoid Above is the  snub disphenoid , also known as a   Siamese dodecahedron ,   triangular dodecahedron ,   trigonal dodecahedron , or  dodecadeltahedron . It is defined as a convex polyhedron with 12 equilateral triangles as its faces, the 84th Johnson solid, and less commonly as a "square antiprism", whatever that means...  Breaking the name down, 'snub' has its own slightly confusing mathematical definition, which you can read about here . It also has a more widely used definition:   To  insult  someone by not giving them any  attention  or  treating  them as if they are not  important   ...